Shelley, Essex Weather
About Shelley, Essex
Shelley traces a quiet, unassuming line across the Essex landscape, defined by the slow transition of fields toward the Epping Forest district. It lies 0.8 miles north of Chipping Ongar (from Chipping Ongar: bearing 359°T, OS grid TL 552 041). The local horizon gathers around the elevation of Fishermans Hill, which rises with a subtle, persistent weight above the surrounding flatlands. Ancient earthworks remain as silent sentinels, specifically the trio of round barrows on Shelley Common that mark the passage of centuries beneath a perpetually changing sky. These burial mounds offer a stark, circular geometry against the open pasture, grounding the modern eye in a much older, more deliberate stillness. Great Stony Park provides a verdant buffer to the south, where the air often carries the damp, metallic scent of the nearby Waterend Ditch. Shelley retains a sparse, agricultural composure, rejecting the encroaching urban density in favour of wide, unadorned vistas. Time here does not rush; it merely settles into the heavy clay soil, leaving Shelley to exist as a brief, thoughtful pause between the busier reaches of the county.
Flight conditions near Shelley. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Shelley and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Shelley, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shelley, Essex, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Shelley includes coordinates 51.714998, 0.245226, in the county of Essex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Shelley is available on the Shelley map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Essex weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.